Chinese Dinner Extravaganza

We were invited to go out to dinner to Miranda's family restaurant. The drivers picked us up outside the school and we headed into town. When we walked into the restaurant we knew this was going to be amazing. We had heard they owned a pretty famous restaurant in Nanjing and it was beautiful. Once we sat down the dishes started to come. We ooo'd and...

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The Day We Became Celebrities

This week we started English classes at a new school. It is a public school about 15 minutes away from our campus. We were told to prepare lessons on days of the week, months, and festivals in America and that we would be teaching third through fifth grade. Not knowing much else Jerem and I forwarded the information to the six teachers who were taking...

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The Day we Became the Museum

We wanted to explore somewhere in Nanjing and so after much debate and lack of planning we thought heading to the Nanjing Museum sounded like an easy enough adventure. For purposes of this blog post we indicated myself, Claire, and Mikelle. We arrived to the museum and began to explore. It started as any museum trip does walking around, pondering...

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A Chinese Easter

Shanghai was so much fun! On Saturday straight from the metro we decided to find Pearl City. A nice lady came out of the metro and helped us which was great and another one of our guardian angels. We found the peal city and headed to the peal store. I ended up buying even more pearls, go figure. But come on it's pure classy jewelry that will never...

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11:11 Luck.

11:11. Sitting. 11:13 train leaves. What. A. Mess.The positive?I got a lot of cardio. However high intensity sprinting with a suitcase in tow, through a sea of Chinese is not necessarily what I wanted. But we made it. Let's start at the beginning shal we?We, Nichole Jordy Mikelle and myself, were supposed to leave at 9:30. We didn't leave...

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